"During the past few months, dozens of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood (MB)
members have been murdered and their offices sacked and burned. The
police openly refuse to protect them. Rather than ordering the
opposition to drop their demand that Egypt's first democratically
elected president, Mohammed Morsi, resign, and negotiate reasonably with
his government, the army gave him a Hobson's Choice: resign or be
ousted. As General Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi announced the army's coup
Wednesday, President Mohammed Morsi released a video on the president’s
website denouncing the ouster. 'I am the elected president of Egypt. The
revolution is being stolen from us.' Minutes later, the website was
shut down, the video disappeared, and the president and 300 MB leaders
were put under arrest, including the Brotherhood's Supreme Guide
Mohammed Badie, a step that not even Mubarak dared to take."